Klosters Music - Blue Skies

Thomas Hampson is known as a charismatic opera singer and profound lieder interpreter. The American baritone has set standards with his vocal art. At his debut in Klosters on Switzerland's National Day, the world star will perform songs and jazz standards from the Great American Songbook, such as George Gershwin's "Fascinating Rhythm", Cole Porter's "Night and Day" and Harold Arlen's "Over the Rainbow". The evening will be a "musical walk into the realms of the light American muse. Songs that need to be heard again and again. It is a great pleasure for me to sing it with the Janoska Ensemble," says Hampson. The four members of the Janoska Ensemble are also classically trained. However, the special band has become known for their improvisational skills and virtuoso transgressions of boundaries in the inimitable Janoska style.

Thomas Hampson, baritone
Janoska Ensemble

Program:
Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
«Blue Skies»

Harold Arlen (1905–1986)
«Over the Rainbow»

Jerome Kern (1885–1945)
«All the Things You Are»

Kurt Weill (1900–1950)
«It Never Was You«
«Mack-The-Knife-Medley»

Cole Porter (1891–1964)
«Night and Day»

Michel Legrand (1932–2019)
«What are you doing the rest of your life?»

George Gershwin (1898–1937)
«Love Walked In» | «Embraceable You» | «Fascinating Rhythm»
«Rhapsody In Blue Medley»

The evening will be complemented by musical improvisations by the Janoska Ensemble and moderated by Thomas Hampson and the musicians.